Museums & Art Galleries in Chinatown, Vancouver, BC

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Vancouver Recital Society

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119 W Pender St #103, DOWNTOWN, Vancouver, V6B 1S5

(604) 602-0363

The Vancouver Recital Society (VRS) is one of the premier concert presenters in North America, offering a milestone debut series for rising stars and an internationally renowned concert series for the world’s most celebrated performing artists. Started in 1980 by Founder and Artistic Director Leila Getz, the VRS presents twenty concerts a year at the Vancouver Playhouse in downtown Vancouver and at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC. Among other legendary artists, Yo-Yo Ma, Kiri Te Kanawa, Jessye Norman, Itzhak Perlman, Evgeny Kissin, Kathleen Battle and Vladimir Ashkenazy have all appeared in recital for the VRS. Notable VRS debuts include Cecilia Bartoli, Maxim Vengerov, Anne Sofie von Otter, András Schiff, Joshua Bell and Bryn Terfel. The VRS has also been a champion of Canadian artists such as Angela Cheng, Scott St. John, James Ehnes and Jon Kimura Parker among others. The Vancouver Recital Society is committed to fostering music education and appreciation in our community by offering concerts by leading world artists free of charge to inner-city and other Vancouver-area schools. The VRS also partners with the St. James Music Academy, the VSO School of Music and the Vancouver Academy of Music to offer lectures, workshops and masterclasses to Vancouver music students by visiting artists.

Gallery Gachet

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9 W Hastings St, GASTOWN, Vancouver, V6B 1G4

(604) 687-2468

Gallery Gachet is a unique artist-run centre located in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Gachet is a collectively-run exhibition and studio space built to empower participants as artists, administrators and curators. The organization’s cultural services have grown from the operation of a small, basement studio in downtown Granville South, offering one exhibition a year in 1993, to coordinating approximately 3, 000 square feet of public-access arts space with up to 12 exhibitions each year, in addition to residencies, workshops, artist talks, symposia, special projects and other events.

Gallery Gachet is a cozy museum and art gallery in Vancouver, known for its eclectic community and initiatives to benefit those with mental health issues. The gallery features personal art forms and local talent, with friendly staff and regular events such as talks and openings offering fresh fruit and sushi. The local community celebrates both the collective and external artists. A tour is available by reservation.